BAKEWELL BIRD STUDY GROUP A SONGBIRD’S RESPONSE TO A CHANGING CLIMATE – MARK EDDOWES 12TH JANUARY AT 7.30PM

Redstart

Dr Mark Eddowes is a local man from Bonsall. His day-job is as an airport safety consultant but he is also an independent ornithological researcher. Mark explores in detail what we can all sense from our own observations – with a changing climate, our springs are advancing, and our songbirds must migrate back here and breed earlier to keep up. They are shifting northwards and vacating previous breeding grounds to the south. He draws in particular on county records and his own nest box studies of Redstarts in Horse Dale, illustrating his extensive fieldwork with photos and video clips gathered along the way.

Bakewell Bird Study Group’s presentation is, as always, at the Friends Meeting House at the end of Chapel Row off Matlock Street (A6) in Bakewell, to the left of the Methodist church. Visitors are welcome, £4 on the door or you can join the group for just £7.50 for the remainder of the season, up to June, for which you will get four talks and 5 field trips which restart in April with a trip to Burton Mere. Meetings are listed here in the Peak Advertiser and at Bakewell Tourist Information Office or visit the BBSG website at www.bakewellbird studygroup.org.uk or call 07768 928432.